Teaching

I love my students, and I love teaching! My central teaching objective is to support students in ways that help them emerge from my class as informed, thoughtful, passionate, and engaged members of our shared communities.

I have taught at a range of institutions including a high school, a community college, two private universities, and two public universities. In my current position, I teach and mentor both undergraduate and graduate students.

​The classes I have taught include:

Development of Black Children and Families: Research and Policy (HDFS)

Families in the United States (SOC)

Family and Community Influences on the Child (HDFS)

Family Perspectives in Policy-making (HDFS)

Honors Seminar in the Social Sciences: Race and Class in America (SOC)

Inequality and America’s Children (SOC)

Introduction to Sociology (SOC)

Graduate Seminar in Qualitative Analysis (SOC)

Race and Families in the United States (HDFS)

Racial Minorities (SOC)

Graduate Seminar on Race and Ethnicity (SOC)

Graduate Seminar on Sociology of Children and Youth (SOC)

Sociology of Children and Youth (SOC)

Sociology of Education (SOC)

Sociology of Families; Marriage and Family (SOC)

Undergraduate and Graduate Directed Independent Studies on a number of topics